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dub3's pixel tribute to Zulip in 2012: a Modern-era chat service
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2012 page

dub3 card · zulip.com

Zulip (2012)

Be kind, rewind your forum.

Cost
3 RAM
Power
4
Rarity
Common
Family
Social
Era
Modern (2009 on)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

On reveal: +2 Power to your other cards here.

On reveal happens once, when the card flips.

It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.

The site, in 2012

Open source team chat software, built as a free alternative to Slack.

Jeff Arnold, Waseem Daher, Jessica McKellar and Tim Abbott created it in 2012. It sorts every message into a topic within a channel. Dropbox bought it in 2014 and released the code as open source in 2015.

Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.

The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2012 page.

Put it on your site

Run Zulip, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Zulip is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2012, then plays a short scene. Want Zulip in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.